EMET’s David Defends Israel from a Goliath of Lies

“Thank you for taking a machete to the thicket of lies,” stated Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, in praise of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) at its June 14 gala in Washington, DC. Before a Grand Hyatt Hotel ballroom filled with America’s pro-Israel leaders, the exceptional speakers addressing EMET’s eleventh annual Rays of Light in the Darkness dinner indicated EMET’s rising importance as an Israel public advocate.

EMET founder and President Sarah Stern introduced the evening as “our most successful dinner yet,” a note of optimism befitting her own personal reflections on Israel’s history of triumphing over disaster. She recalled her namesake Aunt Sarah brutally massacred along with her Polish village by the Nazis in 1939. Her loss in the Holocaust manifested that before Israel’s existence “Jews were left utterly vulnerable and defenseless. Zionism is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people.”

Fifty years after the Six Day War, Stern recalled that in 1967 the “fledgling Jewish state was left totally isolated and on her own. Just 22 years after the Holocaust, it seemed that another Holocaust might be inevitable.” In her White Plains, New York, childhood home she remembered the “almost palpable tension in the air. We kept our television set on that Shabbat, something totally unheard of in my strictly Orthodox Jewish home.” “It is difficult to describe the sheer relief bordering on euphoria” after Israel’s miraculous victory, as demonstrated by her brother, who began proudly wearing his yarmulke without a baseball cap for concealment.

Colonel Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan and prominent public defender of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), similarly praised EMET. In this “phenomenal organization…they go from strength to strength,” he stated, while noting the importance of the acronym EMET’s meaning in Hebrew, namely truth. “In the Middle East, lies have become the central pillar of our enemies’ efforts against us.”

Kemp decried a widespread “weakness of the West,” particularly in relation to Palestinian leaders who “want only destruction of the Jewish state.” “For decades we have tried reasoning with the Palestinians, making concessions, patronizing them, it hasn’t worked and it won’t work. They see it as weakness, and weakness provokes them.” In contrast, he offered a policy of strength, noting that “Israel cannot withdraw its forces from Judea and Samaria and have a hope of survival” and that therefore “there cannot be a two-state solution.”

Dermer’s address similarly focused on Israel’s struggle with an “alternative universe of real lies with real consequences” where “Jews are the occupiers of Judea, the Western Wall is occupied Palestinian territory.” “In this alternative universe, Iran’s path to the bomb has been blocked. In the real world, Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb has been paved.” A “propaganda campaign conducted by a master of fiction manufactured moderation and filled echo chambers with nonsense” in order to achieve President Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran.

EMET honoree Nadiya Al-Noor, a self-professing Muslim Zionist and “queer Muslim woman” with a Jewish father, discussed her own personal journey away from anti-Israel propaganda. “It saddens me that simply being a Muslim who does not hate Israel is considered award-worthy” today, she noted, but “unfortunately, antisemitism is a huge problem in the Muslim community, fueled by anti-Israel propaganda.” “College campuses these days are hotbeds of antisemitism under the guise of anti-Zionism” where once she “believed their hateful lies: Israel was an apartheid state; Israel is Nazi Germany 2.0; Zionism was racism.”

Yet EMET honoree Ashraf Halabi, a Druze IDF veteran, showed that Israel had non-Jewish allies as boisterous applause greeted his podium appearance in IDF uniform. He recounted always hearing while growing up amidst this Israeli minority Arab community that the “Jews and the Druze are blood brothers.” Noting that his family has contributed over 100 years of military service to Israel, he stated that “our loyalty is unconditional. We have no other country.”

Republican North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows and Democratic California Congressman Juan Vargas demonstrated strong Christian Zionism irrespective of the few Jewish voters in their districts. “My wife and I have a passion for Israel and the Jewish people,” Meadows stated. “In what many would call an evangelical congressional district, I can get a standing applause when I tell them that I will unyielding and unflinching stand with the nation of Israel and the Jewish people.”

Concurring with Kemp and Stern, Meadows opposed Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), as the “middle of Israel would be about the size of the Dallas airport; it would be indefensible.” He also rejected the common mischaracterization as mere “settlements” of irrevocably established Israeli communities in territories won by Israel in 1967. “The image that we have of the settlement is this little tiny hut with a little lean-to. They are not settlements, they are subdivisions.”

Meanwhile Vargas proudly proclaimed how he was the first Democratic legislator to oppose Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran, an action that reflected his religious background. During his five years of seminary study when he once prepared for the priesthood, “I grew up with this love for Israel and Jerusalem in particular because of what I heard and believed in every Sunday” in Old Testament Bible readings. Common calls for Israel to withdraw to the “[19]67 lines” provoke him to joke that Israel “is one of the few countries that existed in the world in 67” A.D.; “when people say we should go back to the 67 lines, I am OK with that.”

The master of ceremonies, conservative commentator and “president of the Gentile wing of the international Zionist conspiracy” Cal Thomas, and a video address by Senator Jim Inhofe rounded out yet another EMET truth-telling banquet. Israel’s enemies can be modern Goliaths, yet EMET’s small staff and their supporters skillfully punch above their weight. Supporters of Israel and its contributions to the free world should take note of this mighty little Zionist David.

Comments

Absolute zionist Islamophobia bullshit….Israelis are NOT jews….and they
have no relationship with the ancient BLACK Hebrews…enough of these occupation
Justifying lies…and stop calling this synagogue of Satan jewish…it is
appalling to the true black and Arab “jews”, aka mizrahim, that are murdered and
Occupied by these zionist filth you support!!

Sabri you are a Muslim and most probably Arab which makes you a Pathological Liar and an enemy of ALL humans who are not Muslims

Let me now TEACH you FACTS not the propaganda drivel that Muslims and Arabs put forth:
1. Hebrews emanated from what we call Iraq today and hence are Semites (light skinned) NOT BLACK
2. The word Jews denotes a NATIONALITY not a Religion who can be from any country on Earth just like Arabs (nationality)
3. Not all Israelis are Jews because they have Arabs, Druze, Bedouins, Christians, Muslims, Bahais etc
4. Arabs as Muslims OCCUPIED the land of the Jews (Holy Land) from the Byzantine Empire in c. 635 AD. OCCUPIED it
5. Your Quran asserts that the Holy Land (al Arth al muqaddasta) is bequeathed to the Israelites and that it was Allah who “chose Bani Israil above all the nations of the world” BUT of course you Arabs and Muslims NEVER point out these verses in your Quran
6. In fact you Duplicitous, Mendacious and Hypocritical Muslims are acting AGAINST the will of your god Allah
7. Arabs and Muslims regurgitate a sewer of LIES and after repeating them so many times they then BELIEVE their own propaganda
8. Israel absorbed and integrated Jews from 70 countries on Earth: White Brown Black and Yellow
9. 950,000 of these Jews were EXPELLED from Arab and Muslim countries
10. The only FILTH on Earth since 622AD is Islam and Muslims who are according to your SHARIA the Eternal and Mortal ENEMIES of every human being who is NOT a Muslim (80% of current humanity)

Very informative, but with people like Sabri S. you have just wasted your time. Such people are “beyond the pale” and no amount of argument has any effect. Regrettably, there are far too many Muslim’s of this stamp in the world; even in the West.

An excellent post. Don’t expect it to fall on and be heard by the ears of the original poster, however. They only foment hatred and mis-truth, eschewing actual truth for the lies of “the perfect man”… That’s what kills me. Ignorant, inbred, as stupid as they come and compleatly unable to hear…

Hello Sabri, thanks for making a contribution to this discussion forum. I’d encourage you to continue visiting Jihad Watch and to take your time to read many of the really interesting and thought provoking commentary concerning the many media releases from around the world. Wishing you well, regards Matthieu Baudin.

BLACKS are really not black and never were black. It is a fact the blacks came from China 5000 years ago and had a love for sun so the Chinese did t he reverse of Michael Jackson and developed a skin warmer pill that eventually turned their YELLOW skin black!!!. EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS. SABRI, I THOUGH, BEING YOU COMMENTED SO STUPIDLY THAT I WOULD TRY TO OUTDO YOUR STUPIDITY. BUT I AM A JEW a JEW from Syria like Syrian Jews lived there for over 3000 years. So Jews are inherently more intelligent then you Chinese that occupy Africa pretending to be black creating a business of entitlement reparations because t he ‘white people’ don’t order chow mein as much as they used
to and now order Tacos in support of Mexicans. SO ALL I CAN DO IS BRING A SMILE TO THE READERS AND YOU WIN THE STUPID AWARD.

Netflix Quantico: error number four: Who pick the Muslims refuges and ignored the Christens refugees who the Muslims are murdering, it is call GENOCIDE. The Muslim Brotherhood hand pick the refuges gave the list to the UN who then gave it to Obama’s America. Now we have “Muslim refugees” here in America who are Islamic Soldiers that use the tactic of terrorism to fight and kill the infidels, you and me. I was wrong about the forth monkey. The forth Monkey is brain dead.

Quantico: error number three: who have been all the terrorists? The Muslims. Are you afraid to say? It seems I am writing to the three monkeys: See no evil, speak no evil and hear no evil. On no another error four monkeys. Think no Evil.
Quantico has made another error: Terrorism is simple. Haven’t they watching the news. Oh, I forgot America News don’t report the terrorist attacks in Europe or Israel. Knife attacks, vehicle attack, a small bomb in bus, shooting a bunch of people or children. Or a simple big one, bombs in bus in four or cities going off at the same time, or another simple one shooting up a school bus.

I guess Anti Terrorist Agent knows like me but I am former Anti Terrorist Agent.

FBI fiction training school Quantico. Promoting Islam and is anti Israel. I saw some problems with it in the beginning and it just got worse. Islam is a Religion of Peace? No, it is a culture of Evil, hate, racism, slavery (Sex slavery starting for non Muslim girls at 9 years old or younger) Slavery for African Blacks, and war. I forgot Genocide for Christians in the Middle East. Their war at tactic is Terrorism.
Do you remember that America Indian wars? Those were Cultural Wars that ended in genocide for the Indians. This time we are the Indians.

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